to walk

head of an Edwardian woman on a pinky read background. The head is a negative image

rock love (2024)

Maven (raven)Terrane Project DrawingLake View (dust)Void I to VI in the galleryRed Cloud (trophy)Red Cloud (resumption of nuclear testing)Red Cloud (collecting wood)Mirage IIDanaë Unbound (dust) and Danaë UnboundTenements (Frearson’s 1895) (detail)Signs of the timesRed cloud (salt lake)Woodlines Rock love brings together mixed media works responding to the past and present landscapes of the Goldfields. Artist […]

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wasteland catastrophe

Working it out along the way…

A reflective essay by independent curator John Barret-Lennard describing walking practices from the 1990s and 2000s in comparison with the 2013 fast|slow|complex exhibition. There is no easy entry into this exhibition or to the art work of Perdita Phillips. One must set out at one’s own pace, picking a way over the obstacles encountered, negotiating

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herethere leftright

Walk ’til you run out of water

This image essay brings together notions of dehydration and lostness in outback walking (based on personal experience) with its ecological counterpoint of the rapid change occurring in our world today. Analogical comparisons are drawn between the point where walking loses its rhythm (because of exhaustion) with ecosystems that, too, appear to have lost their way.

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